Don?t get me wrong, I really like this movie, I just think Takashi Miike shouldn?t have rushed it! Still, a really good, hard core, real life manga classic!
Nao Omori, Paulyn Sun, Shinya Tsukamoto
Filmmaker Takashi Miike takes inspiration from Hideo Yamamoto's manga, Koroshiya 1, to tell this bloody and bleak tale about the Japanese yakuza. Blond-coiffed Kakihara's "mentor in crime" disappears,...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
Stats: 3,988 reviews
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September 14, 2009
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April 22, 2009
torture porn much - geez. a blade, or laser for that matter, doesn't exist that could do that to a human body!
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March 12, 2009
Takashi Miike does not try real hard to make his movies make sense, but that's not to say that this hinders them at all. The Kakihara versus Ichi dynamic fuels this movie, and I'm really a sucker for dualities like that. I really liked the way Kakihara tried to out-psycho Ichi, d...( read more)
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January 7, 2009
Ichi the Killer is definitely not a film for people who have weak stomachs or who are easily offended. This film contains some of the most shocking images you'll ever see and includes some very disturbing characters that won't be forgotten in a hurry. It is always a very brave mo...( read more)
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December 6, 2008
This is a landmark gorefest, with some of the most inventive torture scenes in cinematic history. The plot is a little convoluted but I believe that's because when this transfered from manga to script, alot of characters and unnecessary segments were kept which could have been co...( read more)
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November 12, 2009
PRO's : The most extremely violent and bloody japanese mafia movie ever. Sadistic and gory a must see for any horror fan.
CON's : Made before high definition. I have not seen a dubbed version just subtutled. -
November 5, 2009
supposed to be one of the most shocking and gross films ever made... now maybe i'm just not easily freaked out but it wasnt half as bad as i expected. really good regardless.
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March 24, 2008For those of you who read it is a Horror. Due to the bad reveiws tauting it as that. IT is NOT a HORROR.
It is typical Japanese violent-sexual-sadism-pop fusion.
And this film is so overrated that I wont even watch it again
or perhaps the scene of the girl being raped and repeatedly beaten (which I guess all these other reviewers enjoyed)is the reason I wont watch it again. Plus Ichi himself was a stupid character. -
April 8, 2007hey someone but the wrong name in a pic the one with things is not Nao Omori is Tadanobu Asano please someone change the name and the pic of the actors.
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April 1, 2007Looks crazy and I can't wait to see it!
LOL the guy from the poster has a Black Dahlia smile... -
May 20, 2006you must see it this movie is real good ths has to be one of my fav movie's ever
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